Information obtained by The Eureka Reporter under the California Public Records Act indicates that some of the money has already been spent, but funds for the AR-15s and a gun safe were held up by County Administrative Officer Loretta Nickolaus, who sent an e-mail letter to Gallegos questioning the need for the purchases.

The letter from Nickolaus, dated May 10, stated in part, “After quizzing my staff, I am concerned about why DA investigators want to arm themselves with automatic or semiautomatic assault rifles. I hear that (DA’s Office Chief Investigator) Mike Hislop said that they are interested in being part of the security plan and covering the second floor (of the Courthouse, where courtrooms are located). I have also heard that there is an interest in backing up (the Eureka Police Department) and even providing perimeter security.”

Nickolaus continued, “While having backup is usually a good thing, I think this may be outside their course and scope of work, as DA investigators. Plus, doesn’t it create a conflict if the DA investigators are at the scene of a standoff, hostage situation or whatever? How can you investigate something you were a part of?”

Purchase requisitions for the eight-person investigations unit included one 42-gun safe with an electronic lock and dehumidifier at $3,619.31, eight AR-15 semiautomatic rifles at $1,920 each, 10 boxes of .223-caliber hollow-point bullets at $198.50 a box, eight sets of body armor at $550 each, eight tactical vests at $100 each, 16 pairs of tan double-front Carhartt pants at $45 each, eight black parkas at $188 each, 16 “DA Investigator” patches for the parkas at $8 each, a sewing and tailoring charge for the parkas of $27.50, eight short-sleeved polo shirts at $34 each, eight long-sleeved polo shirts at $26 each and an embroidery and lettering charge for the shirts of $520.

But DA investigators may be all dressed up with nowhere to go.

The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office’s Strategic Enforcement Team, a 14-member special weapons and tactics team equivalent, currently operates out of the first floor of the Humboldt County Courthouse, with the DA’s Office and its investigators located on the fourth floor of the same building.

Seven blocks away is the headquarters for the EPD’s 13-member SWAT Team, a unit supported by an additional 13 patrol rifle officers who are trained in and armed with augmented weaponry, according to EPD Public Information Officer Suzie Owsley.

EPD Chief Garr Nielsen said Tuesday his department had not entered into any agreement with the DA’s Office for SWAT support to the EPD.

“I had a discussion with Hislop, during which he informed me that he was in the process of equipping his investigators with tactical equipment and that they would be available to assist EPD if needed,” Nielsen stated via e-mail.

“(Hislop) specifically mentioned being able to help us out with some of our drug sweeps. We did not discuss nor agree upon them assuming a supporting role to EPD in SWAT situations. We currently have an agreement with the Sheriff’s Office to back each other up for SWAT. SWAT support entails training together regularly in addition to formal agreements and established protocols, none of which have we discussed with the District Attorney’s Office.”

Numerous law enforcement agencies within California were contacted and asked if their DA investigators were armed with tactical weaponry. Even in much larger jurisdictions, the answer was almost always no.

In Santa Clara County, for example, which boasts a population more than 10 times that of Humboldt County, Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Sgt. Ed Wise said he could not recall a single instance when a DA investigator participated in a tactical situation.

But Gallegos said DA investigators frequently have tactical weapons, and Tim Kiely, chief investigator for the Mendocino County DA’s Office, concurred.

Kiely said his office currently has two semiautomatic weapons, although they are in the process of selling them at the request of the DA. In an informal survey he conducted of approximately 25 counties, he said more than half the DA Offices that responded had semi- or fully automatic weapons.

Gallegos said he didn’t know who had heavy weapons and who didn’t, “but I know I have guys who are going out there, and I want to make sure they are adequately protected.”

Supervisor Jill Geist brought the motion in March to adopt the supplemental budget and reiterated Tuesday that all law enforcement personnel should be protected.

“That investigators have firearms is very common,” Geist said. “That they have adequate body protection is also very common and very appropriate. I think it’s the scale of it that we’re talking about here, the level of armament involved.

“The list of items caught us a little flat-footed, to say the least,” she said. “While (Gallegos) may assert this is very common, this is not something I’m familiar with.”

According to Kim Kerr, Humboldt County risk manager and deputy CAO, the paperwork has been processed for all of the items except the assault rifles and the safe. Some of the purchases may already have been received.

Kerr stated Tuesday, “As of now, the rifles and gun safe request is on hold until the District Attorney’s Office responds to (Nickolaus’) e-mail request for information. Depending upon the response, then there will be a determination to purchase the rifles and safe or not.”

Gallegos said he had not yet seen the May 10 e-mail from Nickolaus, but would look at it to see what concerns she may have.

In it, Nickolaus asked Gallegos, “Does the DA’s office have a use-of-force policy, and/or training programs or policies for any of this stuff? Would they be working out of class? There are many questions, and I need answers before I can approve these purchases.”

In his initial request, Gallegos said the expenses represented permissible uses of asset forfeiture trust funds, and if the request was not approved, his staff would “continue to face compromising health and safety risks when responding to criminal matters due to lack of proper equipment and communication mediums.”

Related:Humboldt County Board of Supervisors AGENDA March 6, 2007Consent Calendar Item c-5District Attorney5. Supplemental Budget in District Attorney's Budget Unit 1100-205, in the amount of $58,462.00 and Establish Fixed Assets Accounts (Fund 3921 - Asset Forfeiture)RECOMMENDATION: Approve the supplemental budget for the purchase of safety equipment, firearms, radios, cellular phones , evidence tracking system and supplies to be used in support of law enforcement purposes that may result in further seizures and forfeitures for our District Attorney Investigative and Prosecutor Staff.

The CAO shows good judgement in questioning the purchase of assault rifles for every DA investigator.

Gallegos says Mendocino DA's Office has assault weapons. Well if you remember Norm Vroman came under some heat in Medndocino for purchasing submachineguns with silencers! And Gag's was a buddy with Vroman. The current DA in Mendocino wants to sell the guns.

What do DA investigators really do? Serve court papers? Babysit witnesses? Collect reports? Run errands for attorneys? And why is Hislop's EPD buddy having his salary bumped up to top step in what, 4 or 6 months? This is kind of like Gallegos getting Klien and Hugo's salaries bumped up to top step prematurely. This needs closer examination.

In defense of the DA investigators (who are actually cops per PC 832) They do at times go with other agencies to serve search warrants etc etc etc. So I am not faulting them for wanting to have safety gear and equipment to protect themselves and others (basicaly you dont' want to take a knife to a gun fight).

As for You Nick Bravo, didn't you vote for Gallegos? Didn't you vote for him to protect your Marijuana Gardens? Shut your mouth then.

My main issue is this, from what I understand, it takes 1 year to make a step in pay with the county... or atleast it should. So if that were true for the normal employee, that would mean that if you started working at A step, then it should take about 5 years to make E step should it not?

Now I don't know when Wayne Cox was hired but I do know that it was after Hislop replaced his father in law as the man in charge and I believe that was with in the last 6 months. So Rose do you have any idea when Cox was hired? Can you find out?

Well your half right, Hislop does have investigative qualifications but he does not have any managorial (spelling) qualifications.

But back on topic. I know that it has been with in the last 6 months but does anyone know the month that Cox started?

I ask because I have friends who work for the county who are not happy that "newbies" are getting fast tracked... ie "You go Free" Schwartz and now Cox and who knows who else who works for the county and were he workds can't even get a raise unless it is across the board (Meaning every county employee including the board of supervisors.)

I think what you have is an incompetent administrator, unable to effectively run his department, all of his experienced people gone, new hires with questionable ethics who know they have him over a barrel, operating unchecked. He can't say no. And he can't afford to "lose" any more people. so he buys them off with new toys and pay raises. He doesn't care. He is untouchable.

The people are getting less for their money every day.

Some of you think the AG will step in and correct the situation. I have lost all faith in that institution. From the asinine Bill Lockyer, whose staffer said he would endorse anyone as long as they weren't under indictment, to Lockyer himself who admitted he hadn't checked with local law enforcement before he issued his glowing form letter endorsement of Gallegos, to, now Jerry Brown, who more than likely views the situation here with the same disdain that our friends and neighbors view the Trinidad City Council disputes. It means nothing to them.

Meanwhile, the good programs that were once models for the state are destroyed by his mismanagement, and no one cares.

Look, I wish this were just a case of the "Bad News Bears" - perceived to be from the wrong side of the tracks, who will turn out to be the best guys in the world, dedicated to serving the public well, and scrupulously working to make that office better, to do a better job of prosecuting criminals instead of plea bargaining them left and right, instead of allowing back room deals.

It isn't the case. Time after time after time it is proven, and today's story is one more case in point. Plagiarism, lies, neglect, squandering of public funds...

Assault rifles! Hollowpoint bullets. Their own personal assault team.

And they are not even doing their own jobs. Now they are planning to - what? Take over for EPD?

The "independent DA," who has stated that part of his job is overseeing officers, is going to have his investigators be involved in enforcement work? That screams of conflict of interest and is not very independent.

Be wary good citizens. Gallegos's own private enforcement team will be pounding down your door. With his history of punishing political enemies, this is more than scary.

Aside from all this, what investigation(s) has the DA's office initiated under Gallegos that has led to any Information or Indictment? A conviction is out of the question. Do they do any real investigation or are they just follow up errand boys that spend half their days driving around in a county car doing PB, as in Personal Business?

And Rose you are right about Lochyer. He has done more to damage this state that even you know. And Brown will be much better but I doubt if he could imagine the mess Humboldt County has become.

Rose, the reason this is not understandable is because it obviously has to do with drugs. I don't know if it's just paul or what, but this is so erratic and so out of left field it at least makes you wonder if that isn't exactly whats going on.

Unlike CAST and Victim Witness, Gallegos is fond of the Asset Forfeiture program. It showed up during the debates in the campaigns. He really likes that idea of taking people's money away. Now you can see why.

The man who has complained about losing people due to budget cuts, who has lost grants, lost people, who blames the Board of Supervisors for not dedicating more money from the General Fund so that he can "wean" himself from the grants has all this extra money for an assault force.

The real question, though, is - who is going to get thrown under the bus for this one?

I say spend the 30k on moving allowances, to help encourage out of the area DA's to come up here. There has got to be somebody in LA or modesto or someplace who thinks Humboldt is a good idea... somewhere! Weve got to give incentives for these people to get up here, not fucking AR-15's!

He plagerizes his "My Word" piece in the newspaper. He goes to Homeless court and then spends $200 a pop on "parkas" for investigators. He hires Tim Stoen at $120,000 a year who never tries a case. He hires a "Chief Investigator" with little or no investigative experience. He proclaims himself the "independent DA," and then tries to buy assault weapons for his investigators to participate in the standoffs that they would later investigate.

This guy would be an indicted if he were CEO of a publicly held company.

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"...highly imaginative, given to flights of fancy fueled by lack of any instinct for self-doubt, during which any and all ideas will be perceived as brilliant, even inevitable, no matter how lame..."

This is where the request for assault weapons comes into play.

"...Capable of great generosity and random acts of kindness, because they make him feel good about himself and justify his egocentric worldview..." The only thing I can think of are the Friday bagels!@?#*

Traditionally PVG provides a couple dozen bagels and other such comestibles, and some schmears, on Friday mornings. Course if your the poor bugger who has to drive to frickin' Hoopa or Garberville that Friday you miss out.

How long before David OrElsebusch chastises the Board for daring to question thelittle Emporer?How long before the SubStandard comes to the rescue with Paulie's official statement to the press?Zip zero nadda from Heralldo.

IT's NOT Paul's fault?!!!!!! What planet are your from retard! He's the boss. He takes credit for everything good that happens or someone else does. This is at his direction and is absolutely his fault.

Ever hear of some saying ... "THE BUCK STOPS HERE" ? Bush is responisble for all his underlings and so is this pinhead DA.

It's not a "non story." It involves public money being misappropriated. That should be important to every tax paying citizen. (Maybe that's why the person who posted that is not objecting...they are part of our tax exempt society here in Humboldt).

Rose, this story does not involve misappropriation of funds, and you know that. What it involves is a purchase of equipment that some have found questionable. Paul's desire is to promote safety among his workers and thus the community at large. If the lead investigator requests new equipment why would Paul stand in the way of that? We have school shootings, a massive methamphetamines problem and the police are often out gunned by lawless criminals. If you want this heavy burden then run for DA and pick and choose which safety equipment your staff receives. Paul wants the best, and the concerns will be addressed given proper time.

Now the spin'sters are on. This has nothing to do with protecting this community. That is what the cops are for. Pauls job (which he does very badly) is to PROSECUTE THE BAD GUYS AND NOT GO OUT AND CATCH THEM. This has NOTHING to do with safety for the any da employees. Paul want to set up his own assault team to play like SWAT . This is not safety equipment. It is full out assault team equipment. This is not Pauls job. Seems that he want to play soldier and not DA as he has been quite bad at it for 4 years. 12:11 - go bullshit someone else.

You say he needs his own personal assault team to fight school shootings and the meth problem? You are joking right?

Paul seems to want everybody elses job except for his own. He wants to be a social worker, a cop, a judge. He wants a DA paycheck, but doesn't want to and cannot do the job.

What other goddamn DA's office has its own personal assault team? None. You are out to lunch on this one. Maybe a couple may have a semi-auto weapon in the safe but DA's are not given the authority to apprehend criminals. Just prosecute them.

The district attorney is the public prosecutor, except as otherwise provided by law.

The public prosecutor shall attend the courts, and within his or her discretion shall initiate and conduct on behalf of the people all prosecutions for public offenses.

the DA is not a cop nor does he have the authority of a peace officer.

Nowhere in his job description does he get the ability to carry a firearm. No where does he get to have his own swat team. Hell, the guy is too deranged. At least we make the cops take mental exams before arming them. No 12:07 doesn't have a clue about the difference between a cop and a prosecutor and thats evident by his stupid spin.

Investigators serve subpoena's which are not exactly documents filled with good news. These documents are often served on private property, in rural settings. You would attempt to viciously attack Paul for attempting to protect his staff?

The Investigators often have years if not decades of experience in Law Enforcement. You would question their motives or expertise?

Rose, I realize you have a deep seated vitriol for Paul, but don't you think you've gone too far this time? The safety of public officials doing an often dangerous job is something Paul does not joke around with. And he certainly doesn't play politics with it as you are attempting to do.

Since when did investigators need sub-machine guns to serve subpoenas?

Under that logic, unsworn process servers should have assault weapons too. The sheriff who serves eviction notices should also carry an assault weapon.

People are also not receiving "good news" in court, but you don't see bailiffs with assault weapons.

Nice try. Your trying to change the discussion. Paul has NEVER been concerned about officer safety. If he were, he would not sit on reports from standoffs where real officers lives were actually in danger.

Paul has shown his incompetence once again. He has also shown his inquenchable thirst for power. He has again demonstrated that he does not understand his job and what are appropriate and inappropriate actions.

If he really cared about public safety, he would relieve the public from paying Schwartz and Klein from dumping and screwing up serious cases, and Paul himself would quit trying cases to prevent them from being reversed on appeal.

1:27 - get back to the other post, as you were re-posting here the same drivel you put on the last article, I called you a dumb blonde for sounding like such a stupid boob. Since when does anybody carry an assault weapon to serve a subpoena. Also, missy, the justification was not for protection, BUT TO FORM THEIR OWN ASSAULT TEAM.

Please remember that Paul Gallegos is first and foremost a family man. He has a wife and very young children. I understand you have your political views. But the utter personal contempt for the man is disturbing. What we have witnessed on these boards are a viciousness that no other duly elected official has ever faced in this county. And for what?

Paul is under attack for trying to provide the best for his staff. Paul is under attack yet again for trying to increase the capacity of his office to discharge its constitutional function. The investigators indeed are law enforcement officers. Would you tie their hands just because of personal political enmity? Would you allow partisan politics to interfere with justice and public safety? And would you do so in such a manner that children should be protected from hearing your hateful speech?

"Paul's desire is to promote safety among his workers and thus the community at large." and

"The safety of public officials doing an often dangerous job is something Paul does not joke around with."

Then, to my personal favorite:

"Rose, you need anger management therapy and you need it soon."

The explanations are as shifting as the person they defend!

The board approved it (subtext: its not Paul's fault.)

It's a non story (subtext: this does not bode well for the dear leader, let's try to convince people there's nothing to it.)

Paul is concerned about safety (subtext: we've been able to dupe people into believing before that he's a crime fighter, instead of the puppet for progressive causes that have nothing to do with a real DA's Office, so we'll try that again.)

Rose needs anger management (subtext: we've tried spinning it every way we can without success, so we'll attack the messenger.)

"Please remember that Paul Gallegos is first and foremost a family man."

Do you really want to go there? A pitiful attempt to try to soften people and make them feel sorry for somebody who has single handedly dismantled an excellent DA's Office.

"Would you tie their hands just because of personal political enmity?"

Tie their hands? The investigators now cannot do their desk jobs without assault weapons and polo shirts with logos? They carry handguns.

"Would you allow partisan politics to interfere with justice and public safety?"

No, but you did when you got an incompetent imposter elected for the highest position in an office where he had never held a job in order to further the infamous dismissed PL suit.

"And would you do so in such a manner that children should be protected from hearing your hateful speech?"

Huh? Here's a suggestion for you. Don't read this. You obviously want to live in a world of make believe where Paul Gallegos is the second coming. Reality is going to shatter that illusion, so go back to your happy and safe place where he is the golden surfer DA who imparts "justice on all" while carrying his surfboard.

They all should have basic firearms, but this is overboard. Obviously they need to be able to defend themselves when conducting their investigations. But they don't need to take over the duties of other law enforcement. The DA should not have his own SWAT team.

Paul's Out.

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The Humboldt County Grand Jury found that "Weak leadership and poor managerial practices" have undermined the office... Implicit in all evidence gathered by the Grand Jury - including interviews with the D.A. - is the unfortunate truth that the D.A. exhibits a limited understanding of how things are done in the department" Gallegos "lacks the global perspective needed to keep the department operating efficiently," and quotes an unnamed staff member as saying, "The D.A. does not fully understand the functionality of many of the things we do here" - Years later, in his own words: "I’m not an administrator, they didn’t elect me to be an administrator, they elected me to make sure this office runs..."

It’s still heresy to say it out loud, but the great secret of the Gallegos constituency is how many people in the camp are, truth be told, sick to death of the man. I have seen radical lefty Humboldt State professors roll their eyes and gag when his name comes up. I have talked to more than one person on his endorsement list who half-hates himself for allowing his name to be used. The question is: What will these people do in the privacy of the voting booth?Hank Sims

Gallegos on Measure T

6 minute VIDEO Click on the pic Anonymous: Gallegos looks and sounds like he either had been drinking or hitting off his bong. What a nut.... Anonymous: My favorite Gallegos moment in this snippet is when he says he supports Measure T for two reasons and holds up one finger to emphasize the point.

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CASE TOSSED The district attorney misrepresented the law and failed to provide evidence of former Eureka Police Chief David Douglas' and Lt. Tony Zanotti's innocence during a criminal grand jury inquiry into the 2006 shooting death of Cheri Lyn Moore, defense attorneys argued in court documents filed Thursday... ”Our judicial system stands as a real and necessary check on the grand jury indictment process,” one of the documents states. “This court has the authority and the means by which to halt this prosecution, which is justified neither by the undisputed facts, nor by the law.”

Gallegos has taken what was "arguably the state's best small DA's office, with a cutting edge CAST program that "trained the trainers"... into a bunch of time serving bureaucratic wannabee brown nosers, lightly sprinkled with a couple of earnest learners who are sure to split as soon as possible.

One weeps for Max Cardoza who won Angellel, and for Maggie Fleming who won so many impossible victories. Mired in Humboldt for personal reasons, they have to suffer the ignominy of working for Paul, with Yougo, yes, yougo who has freed more people as a prosecutor than he did as a defense attorney. As has Paul. Anonymous comment

Gallegos has answers for everything. I’ve never met anyone whose answers came so quickly, with such polish - except about his law school(s). He likely sounded the same way when promising to get prosecutors off their anachronistic “at will” status and onto civil service status. It never happened. Indeed, he told them, “Disloyalty will not be tolerated” – a real morale builder.

He sounds great. What progressive doesn’t want to believe in him? But it’s a myth. He’s an intellectual lightweight and self-aggrandizer who tries to please everybody with glib answers. Jim Fahey for The Arcata Eye

The Humboldt County DA's office is one of the most exciting prosecutorialoffices in California.

Its District Attorney, Paul Gallegos, is willing to charge anyone who commitswrongdoing--no matter how wealthy, sacrosanct, or ruthless. He believes in total equality before the law. He also plans to be innovative in promoting programs of prevention and treatment. He wants to make it the best prosecutorial office of its size in the nation.... Gallegos' Help Wanted ad

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Gallegos' OWN Quotes

★ ...District Attorney Paul Gallegos said he believes the statute of limitations clock, even on misdemeanors, doesn't start running until law enforcement knows or reasonably should have known of the offense. In this case, Gallegos said, that means the statute of limitations would not run out at least until Feb. 8, 2009, or one year after Gundersen's arrest and the discovery of the photographs in question...

★ “I never said that the information was not available under the Freedom of Information Act. Quite the contrary, I informed you that our use of force policy is not a public record.” Paul Gallegos to the Times Standard 5/25/07

★ ...“One is that I do everything to make people happy which means I don’t stand for anything except for just something,” he said. “The other is I stand for something and I try to be a leader and take some people, a group of people, a community someplace and I say guess what folks, this is who I am. I stand for your beliefs. We share these beliefs or we don’t. You get the option to judge that. This is who I am and I am committed to leading us this place, wherever it is...." Eureka Reporter Gallegos defends record, looks ahead 7/3/2005

★ Note the difference between what he SAID, and what he DOES..."...So what are these issues? Top on Gallegos' list is the proliferation of "garbage cases," small-time crimes and overcharged cases that he said are clogging up the court system.

Garbage cases, said Gallegos, come in two forms: Cases that would lose if actually brought to trial and cases that are overcharged for the crimes committed. The idea behind filing both kinds of garbage, he said, is to get the defendant to plead guilty, netting a conviction without having to go into court.

Again, the IRONY is astounding! Look at what he SAYS, and then think about what he DOES! "Probably 95 percent of the cases that are filed plead guilty. In fact, there are a lot of cases that are filed on the assumption they will plead guilty, because of the time and expense involved in defending them. But these cases shouldn't even be filed in the first place, because if they were challenged, they would lose," Gallegos said. Better yet: If they weren't filed at all, it would save the county time and money...." North Coast Journal 2/21/02 Too bad he didn't take his own advice.

★ “Tim’s a stud,” he said. “He really is; anyone would be stoked to have him.” Gallegos on his second in command right hand man Assistant District Attorney Tim Stoen. (Former second in command right hand man to Jim Jones/People's Temple.)

NOT GUILTY!

"This is not the crime of the century. I'll concede that entirely." Humboldt County DA Paul Gallegos on the Toddler Wandering case, where he threw the full weight of the law against an innocent father. The jury took a couple of minutes to sign the papers needed to find him not guilty. Only one example of Gallegos' schizophrenic pattern of pursuing cases.

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